George Washington Institute of Living Ethics Board
Donald Patthoff |
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Title | Board Chair |
Dr. Patthoff has practiced general dentistry in Martinsburg, WV since 1981, and is involved nationally with a variety of issues in ethics. Prior to private practice, he was a clinical dentist and a principle research investigator at the VA hospital in Martinsburg from 1974-83. He received a BS from Ohio State University in 1964 and was a research associate at Kettering Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio until 1965. He served in the US Army in Germany and Viet Nam and received his DDS from the University of Detroit in 1974. He is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. A few of his leadership positions include president of the West Virginia Dental Association and the Professional Ethics in Dentistry Network. He is an ethics consultant to the Council on Ethics Bylaws and Judicial Affairs of the American Dental Association, and is the liaison from the American Society for Dental Ethics to the ADA, ACD, ADEA, and NIH. His academic pursuits include university appointments, lecturing nationwide and internationally, and many ethics publications, including co-authorship of a regular Academy of General Dentistry ethics column in Impact, and co-editing a special edition of the Journal of Dental Education on Professional Promises: Hopes and Gaps to Access to Oral Health Care, and section chair for a Springer Publication book chapter. He is a board member of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society and Chair of the 2016 IDEALS Congress. Dr Patthoff has co-organized and presented at multiple national workshops and summits on professional ethics in dentistry; he was co-developer of the Intensive Bioethics Course for Dentists at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Dr. Patthoff has served the program committee of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities and has presented numerous times to its Dental Interest Group. He is Chair of the Ethics Committee at WVU-East Hospital and is currently developing an applied ethics model designed to improve healthcare access for the underserved. He has chaired the Ethics Committee of the Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce, The Eastern Panhandle Ethics Project, the committee to develop the George Washington Chair of Living Ethics at Shepherd University, and the George Washington Institute. Dr. Patthoff was editor of the Journal of the Academy of Laser Dentistry 2003-06 and served its executive board as an advisor. He has chaired ALD’s ethics committee and communications committee as well as the dental sections for two Engineering Conference International sessions on light activated tissue regeneration. He has also co-hosted two international incubator sessions on Photobiomodulation with the Optical Society of America. |
Bill Drennen |
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Title | Board Member |
A native West Virginian, Bill Drennen studied architecture at Yale University and holds an MA in Humanities. He also served with the US Navy in Panama and Vietnam. A film-maker, he founded Communications Corps, Inc. in Washington, DC. He is an author and realtor, and served as Commissioner of History and Culture for the state of West Virginia and president of the Jefferson County Historical Society. |
Scot Faulkner |
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Title | Board Vice Chair |
Scot Faulkner advises governments and global corporations on strategic change and leadership. His articles on leadership & management are published in The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, Politico, and Roll Call. He has appeared on ABC-Australia, Bloomberg, CBS News, CBS Radio, CNN, CSPAN, FOX, NPR, PBS, VOA, and talk radio. Mr. Faulkner was the first Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. He oversaw a $1 billion annual budget and all nonlegislative operations, which served 14,000 employees, 21,000 journalists, and 3 million tourists. His business-based reforms rebuilt the integrity of House operations and saved over $148 million. His reforms became a model for the operation of 44 national parliaments around the world and were named one of the Top 100 Innovations in American Government by the Ford Foundation and Harvard University. Mr. Faulkner was the National Director of Personnel for the Reagan Bush Campaign. He went on to serve in the Presidential Transition and on the White House Staff. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Faulkner held executive positions at the Federal Aviation Administration, the General Services Administration, and the Peace Corps. His accomplishments have been recognized with 26 management awards and four letters of commendation from the President of the United States. Mr. Faulkner’s private sector experience includes serving as Global Practice Leader for the American Management Association, Vice President of Philip Crosby Associates, Chief Administrative Officer of IntelliDyne-LLC, and Managing Partner of Phoenix Consulting Associates. Mr. Faulkner earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration from American University and a Bachelors Degree in Government from Lawrence University. He studied at the London School of Economics and Georgetown University. Mr. Faulkner was a guest lecturer at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He serves on the boards of numerous corporations and foundations including: Apia Wealth Management, Kinexum Pharmaceuticals, African Art Museum of Maryland, the University of Maryland’s Center for Leadership Innovation and Change (CLIC), the National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy, and the George Washington Institute of Living Ethics. He has served as vice chair of GWI since 2011. |
Mark Madison |
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Title | Board Member |
Mark Madison has degrees in Biology and History, and earned a PhD in 1995 from Harvard University in the History of Science. He has taught environmental history, American history, environmental ethics, and conservation biology at Harvard University, the University of Melbourne, and Shepherd University. He is currently the chief historian for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, lecturing on conservation issues around the country and helping run the conservation archives at the National Conservation Training Center. He has two books in progress on wolf restoration and the California condor. His interest in environmental ethics combines his fieldwork, doing tropical reforestation as a Peace Corps volunteer, and his scholarly interest in the evolution of human-animal relations. |
Keith Alexander |
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Title | George Washington Institute of Living Ethics Scholar and Assistant Professor of History, Shepherd University |
kalexand@shepherd.edu ( Email ) | |
Phone | 304-876-5335 |
Keith Alexander is Assistant Professor of History at Shepherd University. After graduating from Penn State University in 1992, Alexander worked in Washington, DC as an environmental policy analyst before returning to graduate school. He received his MA in 1996 and his PhD in 2003 in history from the University of Maryland, studying and doing dissertation research in Germany in 1996-1997 and 2000-2001. He worked at the German Historical Institute as a Research Associate from 2003 to 2005. He teaches classes in architectural history, history, and historic preservation at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. He was appointed George Washington Institute of Living Ethics Scholar in August 2015. |